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Photograph of Red Fox Inn
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Horton Bay House-Red Fox Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Red Fox Inn, also known as the Horton Bay House, is a building, originally, a boardinghouse, located at 05156 Boyne City Road in Horton Bay, Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”

Wikipedia article Red Fox Inn (Horton Bay, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Charlevoix County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Horton Bay House--Red Fox Inn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 05156 Boyne City Rd., Bay Township, Horton Bay, 49712
  • When was it listed? April 1995
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bay township
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95000372 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Horton Bay House-Red Fox Inn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBOYNE CITY FD 0077446 - 2018
5 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 03
5 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Horton Bay House-Red Fox Inn: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D'Oge Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed Shale ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton Bay, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHorton Bay$75,000A large and historic barn was severely damaged. Multiple trees were downed, one onto a home.

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Horton Bay General Storeunder 500 feet1991
Horton Bary School0.2 miles2001
Wolverine Hotel5.7 miles1986
Greensky Hill Mission5.9 miles1972
Boyne City Central Historic District6.0 miles2012
Boyne City Water Works Building6.4 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000372 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlevoix CountyAll 17 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.